Hi Robert,
There has never been a question in my mind whether qualifications are required to post.
However, credentials are one source of support
for ideas. Reference to a source of information
is a valid concern. If any poster refuses to
honor the reasonable requests for 'authority'
on a position, I think it matters not whether they have a PhD or a junior high school education. A few more points:
1) The merits of our ideas are subject
to skeptical review. Merit alone should be enough. I feel qualifications are rightly asked about when the ideas are not defended on merit but by subterfuge and circumlocution.
2) The forum's guidelines ask for source citation when possible.
3) A thorough audit is probably needed for evaluating the claims by any poster that
another poster is being unfair. I think
such an audit, if all the posts are still
in the archives, would show that I was rarely
an instigator of nastiness. My greatest
'infraction' has usually been to find a valid
objection to something being paraded as logic.
But that is exactly what science does. I was attempting not to be nit-picky but balanced -- speaking to a crucial point. A courteous refutation was rarely offered against my replies.
Why was this? Among other causes, I think cherished delusions can be painful to have exposed to healing. That is all I was doing
most of the time. I never felt I had a license to abuse anyone here.

• Ethics, fairness, careful study, courtesy all matter - quiet - March 24, 2003 - 05:57 UTC
  • splash - dolphin - March 24, 2003 - 08:30 UTC
    • Desiderata - quiet - March 24, 2003 - 22:13 UTC
      • Mike knows how to copy - yaniru - March 24, 2003 - 22:33 UTC
        • why don't you go play with someone your own mental size? - quiet - March 25, 2003 - 19:01 UTC
          • Actually I do play with people like Penrose - yaniru - March 26, 2003 - 02:29 UTC
            • You say I personally invited you back, but that is not so - quiet - March 26, 2003 - 02:54 UTC
              • To children of the universe - dolphin - March 26, 2003 - 11:37 UTC
                • I do not think DoctorDick missed anything - yaniru - March 26, 2003 - 12:58 UTC
                  • Where is that abstract - quiet - March 26, 2003 - 17:25 UTC
                    • If so,it's thanks to you - yaniru - March 26, 2003 - 18:14 UTC
                    • no, thank yourself - quiet - March 26, 2003 - 18:41 UTC
                    • Here is the Abstract - yaniru - March 28, 2003 - 14:06 UTC
  • Education? Hmmm. - robertgregory - March 25, 2003 - 07:19 UTC
    • Oh, a bit of EGO after all... - robertgregory - March 25, 2003 - 07:35 UTC
      • Thanks Robert - quiet - March 25, 2003 - 14:39 UTC
• these are the only guidelines - sagefr0g - March 25, 2003 - 00:05 UTC
  • what will you give me if I do your homework for you? - quiet - March 25, 2003 - 07:01 UTC
    • my home work assignment - sagefr0g - March 25, 2003 - 10:55 UTC
      • Beautifully done - quiet - March 25, 2003 - 14:44 UTC